Hospice Care - Trends
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

End-of-life care in heart failure.

29 Apr 2009 The clinical syndrome of heart failure is increasing in prevalence, as is the number of elderly persons with heart failure. Increasing frailty and progression of heart failure in large numbers of patients means clinicians are increasingly challenged ... Read more...

Death, mourning, and medical progress.

30 Dec 2008 A number of changes can be observed in the way people are coming to think about death, mourning, and medical progress. The palliative care movement was initiated some 30 years ago to respond to widespread ignorance or neglect of pain relief for the ... Read more...

Trends in quality of end-of-life care for Taiwanese cancer patients who died in 2000-2006.

31 Aug 2008 BACKGROUND: Quality of end-of-life care received by cancer patients has never been explored in an entire Asian country for all ages and cancer groups. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective cohort study to examine trends in quality of end-of-life care ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hospice Care - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The new hospice interpretive guidelines: are hospice providers compliant? 30 May 2009
• End-of-life care in heart failure. 29 Apr 2009
• Pet hospice movement gaining momentum. 13 Apr 2009
• Hospice in North Carolina. 27 Feb 2009
• Palliative care--evolution of a vision. 30 Dec 2008
• Death, mourning, and medical progress. 30 Dec 2008
• The emperor's new clothes. 29 Nov 2008
• What are we doing here? Chaplains in contemporary health care. 30 Oct 2008
• The influence of the newly formed hospice and palliative medicine subspecialty on radiation oncology and end-of-life care. 30 Oct 2008
• The mainstreaming of palliative care. 29 Sep 2008
• Trends in quality of end-of-life care for Taiwanese cancer patients who died in 2000-2006. 31 Aug 2008
• Hospice and palliative care development in India: a multimethod review of services and experiences. 16 Apr 2008
• A primer on hospice for the internist. 30 Mar 2008
• [Organisation and development of palliative care in Denmark] 27 Oct 2007
• Increasing access and quality in Department of Veterans Affairs care at the end of life: a lesson in change. 29 Sep 2007
• [State of the art 2007] 30 Mar 2007
• Knowledge and attitudes about cancer pain management: a national survey of Italian hospice nurses. 27 Feb 2007
• Heart failure and the future of palliative medicine. 30 Jan 2007
• Risks and rewards. 30 Jan 2007
• Palliative medicine coming of age. 30 Jan 2007

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Technical information about 'Hospice Care'

Definition: Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D017051

Alternative terms: Hospice Care; Care, Hospice; Hospice Programs; Hospice Program; Program, Hospice; Programs, Hospice; Bereavement Care; Care, Bereavement;

Related Mesh Headings: Respite Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.905.400; N02.421.585.905.400;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: for the dying; /psychol permitted